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Take stock for tough times
Comment Maximise staff Labour is the largest controllable expense for most retailers, yet many fail to fully understand how long tasks allocated to their staff can actually take. History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on innovation now... [24 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment That's because companies often fail to make the terms enforceable, should standards not be met. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity and blocking excellence. And that's exactly why some fresh thinking is required, says the... [07 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Customers are liable for losses on their accounts if they fail to act with reasonable care. What the code has to say about online customers paying for fraudulent transactions on their accounts is worth reading carefully, says lawyer Duncan Pithouse. [15 Apr 2008]
How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment Customers can get annoyed when suppliers fail to respond to changing requirements. A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer Margaret Harvey. Economic forecasts by consultancy Capital Economics suggest... [10 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment If companies fail to comply with an enforcement notice, then it becomes a criminal offence. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. We're warned of dire consequences if we get it wrong - especially in data... [08 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment A train-wreck of a migration plan, always likely to fail, and driven by BA marketing puff of how great we are. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers, unsurprisingly, astonished it went so wrong. [03 Apr 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment CIO Agenda respondent Steve Williams, head of ICT for Sunderland City Council, said: "I suspect that SOA will deliver brilliantly for some organisations but fail the majority. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech... [26 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Payment is ensured by a tracking system linked to the TV sales process and by detector vans that patrol areas where houses fail to register. Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. [26 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment If they fail to seize the opportunity they will suffer the damaging effects of being frozen out forever. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it often... [17 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment But factors that emerge once the ink is dry have just as great a bearing on whether the outsourcing will succeed or fail. The fanfare of a new outsourcing contract may have died down long ago. But the work is not all done just because the ink has... [12 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment This would be an alien world without customer freedom and so obviously doomed to fail. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. Suppose for a moment you bought a pen and found it would only write on... [05 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer ¦ The Brampton Factor: Why big government IT projects fail ¦ Video: How to keep the best-performing staff ¦ Photos... [24 Jan 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Why big government IT projects fail
Comment A £500m prisoner-tracking project failure barely causes a ripple these days. We're so hardened to government IT problems we no longer see the underlying causes, says Martin Brampton. I've been feeling sorry for the government. [22 Jan 2008]
What price compliance?
Comment Organisations taking just a tactical or piecemeal approach by considering each regulation with which they must comply in isolation will fail to see the bigger picture and are likely to end up spending more in the long run. [07 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up Seattle, lest we forget, is the home of Microsoft, and many have speculated as to the operating system installed on the computer that caused the display sequence to fail and then start again hopelessly out of sync with the music. [04 Jan 2008]
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